obama's speech was very good. not long afterwards, there was an issue of "time" magazine dedicated to lincoln and they asked a number of people to write about lincoln and obama did. he talked about what was going on in his mind when he's sitting there watching the graduates marng down the aisle and get ready for the program. and he said what crossed my mind was -- i was sitting where abraham lincoln was trying to run for the senate, trying to beat the incumbent, douglas. and even though he lost it made it possible for me to be here in the senate, which i thought was really remarkable. so any way, what did lincoln say in his speech? well, we have five versions of it in his own hand. one of them is the earliest one i talked about, the nikolai, but the ones that represent his attempt to put down an official version are known as the everett -- the bancroft and the bliss which he did in february and march. that is to say three to four months after the speech. and the concept we have of how he did this, what he used, su